tetrifolien.
error in Holland (whence tetrifoil in Daniel) for tre-trifoly, i.e. tree-trefoil. Tre-trifoly was applied by Turner to the Cytisus of the ancients ( Medicago arborea). The black-wooded Cytisus of Pliny was the laburnum ( Cytisus laburnum).
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xl. 490 Yet the Cytisus or Tetrifolie is blacker, and seemeth most to resemble the Ebene.
1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia v. i. sig. I2 And seeke out Clauer for thy little Lambes, And Tetrifoll to cheerish vp their Dammes.
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